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One of the main points now is that in order to become an Academy, you either have to have a sponsor (usually in the form of an existing Academy Trust, and some are enormous, 200+ schools) or be an Outstanding school and you can sponsor other schools to join you. No school can be a standalone...

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Actually, the longer term plan is to take on failing schools, up to three maybe, but we want to establish a secure foundation from which to start.

Unfortunately, that's not possible. The local LEA has been starved of funds by central Government over the past five years or so. As a result, they've had to cut their services to the schools, possibly unnoticed by the wider population as more visible services have been spared. The LEA is now...

What it does is remove the teachers out of a national pay scale and into a "privatised" pay regime, so they will be employed by the Academy trusts, not the LEA or the DfE. As a side effect, and I'm sure the Tories haven't thought of this, it effectively neutralises the teachers unions, as a...

As a Parent Governor of a local primary school, recently rated as Good by Ofsted, we are now faced with either converting now with other like minded schools into a multi school trust, or wait for the Tories to force us unwillingly into a ******* marriage with any crappy old school who will suck...